Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers
Patience is the art of hoping.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Prosperity makes few friends.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
